USA TODAY: Microsoft takes notice as more people use Google Docs

(via inothernews)

I’m glad to see a shift in power from one giant to the next, but how many of the new users of Google docs are actually big companies that have private or secure information that they now trust Google to properly secure? Term papers for high school and university are one thing, but what about financial data in spreadsheets? If Google wants to win over big companies (power users of ppt and excel), they need to make sure the data is secure.

gintt:

Bing + Google = Bingle

Too bad “Bing” wasn’t named something that ended in -fy or -ber cause it could have been called:

Goofy or Goober

Bing Passes 10% Market Share, Nielsen Says

taitran:

Bing Passes 10% Market Share, Nielsen Says

Top 10 Search Providers for August 2009, Ranked by Searches (U.S.)
+------------------------------+-------------+----------+------------+
| Provider                     |  Searches   | M-O-M %  |  Share of  |
|                              |    (000)    |  Growth  |  Searches  |
+------------------------------+-------------+----------+------------+
| Total                        | 10,812,734  |   2.9%   |   100.0%   |
| Google Search                |  6,986,580  |   2.6%   |   64.6%    |
| Yahoo! Search                |  1,726,060  |  -4.2%   |   16.0%    |
| MSN/Windows Live/Bing Search |  1,156,415  |  22.1%   |   10.7%    |
| AOL Search                   |   333,231   |   1.8%   |    3.1%    |
| Ask.com Search               |   186,270   |   2.9%   |    1.7%    |
| My Web Search                |   128,432   |   0.5%   |    1.2%    |
| Comcast Search               |   50,328    |  -21.6%  |    0.5%    |
| Yellow Pages Search          |   37,923    |   2.7%   |    0.4%    |
| NexTag Search                |   31,830    |   0.4%   |    0.3%    |
| Local.com Search             |   16,314    |   2.9%   |    0.2%    |
+------------------------------+-------------+----------+------------+
Source: Nielsen MegaView Search

http://searchengineland.com/bing-passes-10-market-share-nielsen-says-25845

Great…now Bing will be the IE6 of search!!

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cyan1975:

Who is lining Google’s pockets today?

(via mary1in)

We’re thinking that it might be worth spending $100K in advertising just to show up on graphs like this…let alone being found on Google.

brit:

I am a big fan.

Why isn’t Google width=”100%”?

Google was once happy to help us find things on the wild, wild web. The company has obviously grown past that point, but could it soon be savior of the entire world? Possibly and probably.

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Google, The World’s Solar Savior? (via shaneblog)

The day we embrace Google is the day when Google cures cancer. Until then, go Netscape!